The office cites more than 125 deaths nationally attributed to e-bikes and e-motos, says injuries in Southern California have risen more than 430% over four years, and says e-bike and e-moto injuries are now the leading reason Orange County children go to the emergency room. Children ages 11 to 14 account for 61.7% of e-moto crashes, according to the state’s SWITRS crash database as cited by the office.
“We don’t want to have to prosecute parents – we want to save kids’ lives,” District Attorney Todd Spitzer said in the release.
“We want to save kids’ lives” while the OC fights tooth-and-nail against every attempt to make roads
saferremotely usable for anyone outside of a car…All this just screams that there’s severely unmet demand for transportation alternatives.
But hey, “we’ve tried nothing and we’re all out of ideas. Thoughts and prayers.” etc…
Does your city have emotos regulations that seem effective? Let me know.
I’m on a Transportation Commission looking at drafting regulations. I’m looking for specific ordinance language that works.
Good luck! Please also let us know here what you eventually come up with!
Thanks for separating emotorcycles from ebikes and e-scooters! Too many politicians lump them together
California regulates e-motos apart from Class 1, 2 and 3 e-bikes, which seems sensible.
